6 papers
Time Preference and Tax Burden Acceptance: Asymmetric Effects on Intertemporal and Contemporaneous Redistribution
Eiji Yamamura, Fumio Ohtake
This paper examines the extent to which individual time preferences are associated with the willingness to accept different tax burdens. The first is an intertemporal redistributio…
Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Altered the Traditional View about Women's Active Work?
Eiji Yamamura, Fumio Ohtake
This study investigates how the view about women's active work changed after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease. We use individual-level panel data from…
Sleep and redistribution preferences: Considering allowable tax rates
Eiji Yamamura, Fumio Ohtake
This study explored the association between sleep duration and redistribution preferences. Using an online survey, we propose a hypothetical situation in which the tax paid directl…
Preference for redistribution and institutional trust: Comparison before and after COVID-19
Eiji Yamamura, Fumio Ohtake
Using an individual-level panel dataset from Japan covering the period 2016-2024, we examined how the COVID-19 pandemic, as an unanticipated public crisis, affected preferences for…
The Widening Gap in Tax Attitudes: Role of Government Trust in the post COVID-19 period
Eiji Yamamura, Fumio Ohtake
This study investigates shifts in acceptable tax rate for reducing inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic using Japanese data. We find a transition from norm-based, unconditional…
Would Monetary Incentives to COVID-19 vaccination reduce motivation?
Eiji Yamamura, Yoshiro Tsutsui, Fumio Ohtake
Some people did not get the COVID-19 vaccine even though it was offered at no cost. A monetary incentive might lead people to vaccinate, although existing studies have provided dif…